The message of the gospel. The good news that God has spoken— and continues to speak to us— through a human person is scandalous and offensive to our innate religious sensibilities.

I don’t know about you, but I tend to think that communion with the capital “D” Divine means shaking off this mortal coil, leaving behind the ordinary, everyday matters of life:
Climbing the mountain, 
going on pilgrimage, 
being a different person.

But the incarnation of God, in Mary’s boy, born under scandalous circumstances, to a couple in conflict, in a world situation about as far from ideal as has ever been in human history.

This is how God comes to us. And the message of the gospel for you and me today is this: God comes to us today in the ordinary beauty of our lives.

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